Here’s a game I came up with. Asking one person is interesting enough, but asking at least five is essential to the point of the game. … It’s a dark and stormy night and you’re on a road going somewhere that you don’t want to go, but have to be. How are you traveling? Where […]
There’s this saying that Stephen King is such a good writer that he could write a grocery list and have it be entertaining. I took a brief look to see if he had written such a story, but couldn’t find one. Nevertheless, this should be a Thing, at the very least, an official thought experiment that
Books I was recommended: Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh The Silence, by Tim Lebbon The Well-Fed Writer, by Peter Bowerman This list is shorter than I like, but I do have permission to ask Jonathan Maberry for some good action/horror titles. Book to Study: The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler, as per Laura Hayden’s mystery
Still scrambling and running behind, but the end is in sight… … Okay. If you have a fashion sense or do costuming, ignore this. This is not for you. You’re a writer, and you’re going to a writer function. How do you dress? It seems like some writers have this down, in a way that
I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories that centers around the horrific in a kind of fairy-tale way.
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I lost a major client (his sales died before the first of my books for him came out waaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!) and am slammed with other things at the moment, so I’m probably going to be a bit spotty until May. But I had to get this off my chest. … I have been struggling with the
This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. … I’d like to take a moment to interject something that came up in the middle of writing these posts.
This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. … Resources related to productivity/speed issues: Look for good general productivity, happiness, and habit-changing books and websites, like The Seven Habits
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a war novel about the Iraq War. The characters are caught on a Fox News camera
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This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. … Techniques to help handle productivity/speed issues: Discovering and resolving fear issues around writing (I’m not good enough, I’m taking
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